Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.004171580876183079
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 186.0461° · Dec 31.5216°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 24 11.2
- Declination
- 31 ° 31 ′ 19 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1253 km/s
- Distance
- 56.21 Mly (17.233 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Coma I (NGC 4274 subgroup)
- Type
- SB(rs)c?+
- Size
- ~27,100 ly (8.32 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.57 x 0.80
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4359 is a dwarf barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on that is about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 20, 1787. It is a member of the NGC 4274 Group, which is part of the Coma I Group or Cloud.
On the sky, NGC 4359 appears to lie closest to the flocculent spiral NGC 4414 which is also a member of the NGC 4274 Group and the Coma I cloud. However, their radial velocities differ by around 500 km/s suggesting an interaction between the two is unlikely.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4359” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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